“This plot is not for sale” are the six words you will find, marked on a lot of properties and plots of land in Uganda. The words are meant to ward off quack land or property brokers and conmen. Most of the cases handled in courts in Uganda, and Kampala in particular, are fraud-related cases (like selling land while the true owners are away using counterfeit titles) and land transaction fraud (when fake land titles are obtained and sadly some officers in the land registry are involved).

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OUTLINE

I. Introduction to Blockchain Technology

II. Overview of the Surveying Industry

III. Surveying and Blockchain

IV. Types of Blockchains  

V. The Case for Blockchain in the Real Estate Industry

VI. Blockchain, Surveying, Land Registry and Cadastre 

VII. Blockchain Registry Integration Levels

VIII. The Future of Blockchain for Real Estate

IX. Conclusion

Por Dra. María Luisa Acosta

“Há causas pelas quais vale a pena morrer, mas não valem a pena matar. Nicaragua unida, nunca será derrotada” Danny Ezequiel López Morales, 21 anos, morto por paramilitares no bairro indígena de Sutiaba, em 5 de julho de 2018.

Maritza Losada moved to Puerto Guadalupe five years ago when her husband found a job with a large biomass energy company that grows sugar cane. She and her husband purchased a lot in the town’s poorest neighborhood, Barrio Nuevo. The district remains today much like it was in 1995 when the government created the housing project for future agro-laborers: no roads, no sewage, no gutters.

Author: Ahmadou Aly Mbaye

Editor's Note: 

Escolta armada na entrada da Fazenda Agropecuária Bauru, conhecida como Fazenda Magali | Foto: Associação de Moradores Gleba União

Por Leandro Barbosa, especial para Ponte Jornalismo